If XML can do it, you can do it too ...
If you’re a Web developer, you’ve seen XML rocket to first place as the preferred data format for everything from stock trades to graphic design. In this tightly focused, fully updated guidebook, a top XML authority gives you a complete education in the technology. You’ll learn to write documents in XML, validate them against DTDs and schemas, format them with CSS and XSL style sheets, and take advantage of their versatility. This book helps you to create top–flight Web sites without becoming a professional programmer.
Inside, you’ll find complete coverage of XML
- Discover how semantic tagging makes XML documents easier to maintain and develop than their HTML counterparts
- Post XML documents on Web servers in a form all users can read
- Use style sheets to convert XML to HTML for legacy browsers
- Include international characters in your documents, and merge different XML vocabularies with namespaces
- Build large documents from smaller parts using entities and Xinclude, and connect documents with XLinks and XPointers
- Gain a complete understanding of both CSS and XSL and how each is used with XML
- Explore practical applications of XML in Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG), XHTML, RDDL, and the new application developed for genealogical data